Wednesday, May 24, 2006

S2611 final vote approaches

With the Senate capitulation for cloture on S2611 (the CIRA), a final vote is likely tomorrow. The future of the United States hangs in the balance. Are we going to remain a democratically-principled republic built upon plentiful land, high wages, merit, cultural unity, and relative wealth equality, or are we going to go the way of Latin America with enormous wealth disparities, ethnic tensions, communication barriers, overcrowded and polluted cities, depressed wages, perpetually bouncing between populist leftist leaders and big-business repressers, and with more than a sprinkle of destitute south Asia to boot?

Concerned citizens need to contact their senators. Contact information is here. Below is what I've sent to both of mine. If you're unsure of what to write, please feel free to cut+paste what I've written.

A feudal society is not an ownership society. Instead, it is a stratified society based on salient differences in status, where ever-cheaper labor is pursued at the expense of technological innovation (in this way resembling the Confederacy). To remain on the cutting edge of technology, we must remember the words of Socrates in Plato's Republic: "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." Further, relatively newly-arrived Hispanics, especially of the second generation, suffer from some of the highest levels of gang activity and teen pregnancy in the nation. Urban areas in the Southwest are becoming no-go zones due to the gathering presence of ruthless gangs like MS-13.

Comparisons between this fourth wave of immigration and the previous three are spurious. No lucrative safety net existed before the middle of the 20th Century, there was a greater strategic need for unskilled labor, and the US always had control of who was allowed in and who was to be removed (at Ellis Island, no less, were those suspected of becoming "net charges" denied residency).

Further, we are a nation of settlers as much as we are a nation of immigrants. For 150 years prior to the Declaration we remade the New World into the United States of America, much to the chagrin of the Native Americans that predated us. Settlers reshape the society they settle. Immigrants assimilate into it. The throngs of law breakers waving the flags of Latin American countries and shrieking in Spanish during the April and May protests are not immigrants, they are settlers. I do not want to relive the experience of Native Americans, and can only assume that as my representative you must feel the same way. A vote in favor of the final version of S2611 is a vote against sovereignty, the value of US citizenship, and against yourself in the next election cycle via me.

Sincerely,

[signed]------

We need an immigration policy that admits only those who will benefit the native population through the creation of net wealth in addition to boosting America's quality of living (attributes included high educational attainment, high IQ, English-fluency, good health, criminally averse, etc). The realization of a successful merit immigration system is predicated on an ending of unskilled immigration through the construction of a wall, punitive workplace enforcement, and mandatory jail time for repeat illegals.